In the beginning was the Word, and the
Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the
beginning with God. All things were made through him. Without him was
not anything made that has been made. In him was life, and the life
was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the
darkness hasn’t overcome it. There came a man, sent from God,
whose name was John. The same came as a witness, that he might
testify about the light, that all might believe through him. He was
not the light, but was sent that he might testify about the light.
The true light that enlightens everyone was coming into the world.

He was in the world, and the world was
made through him, and the world didn’t recognize him. He came
to his own, and those who were his own didn’t receive him. But
as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God’s
children, to those who believe in his name: who were born not of
blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of
God. The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory,
such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace
and truth. John testified about him. He cried out, saying, “This
was he of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me has surpassed me,
for he was before me.’” From his fullness we all received
grace upon grace. For the law was given through Moses. Grace and
truth were realized through Jesus Christ. No one has seen God at any
time. The one and only Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he has
declared him.

This is John’s testimony, when
the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, “Who
are you?”

He declared, and didn’t deny, but
he declared, “I am not the Christ.”

They asked him, “What then? Are
you Elijah?”

He said, “I am not.”

“Are you the prophet?”

He answered, “No.”

They said therefore to him, “Who
are you? Give us an answer to take back to those who sent us. What do
you say about yourself?”

He said, “I am the voice of one
crying in the wilderness, ‘Make straight the way of the Lord,’
as Isaiah the prophet said.”

The ones who had been sent were from
the Pharisees. They asked him, “Why then do you baptize, if you
are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the prophet?”

John answered them, “I baptize in
water, but among you stands one whom you don’t know. He is the
one who comes after me, who is preferred before me, whose sandal
strap I’m not worthy to loosen.” These things were done
in Bethany beyond the Jordan, where John was baptizing.

The next day, he saw Jesus coming to
him, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin
of the world! This is he of whom I said, ‘After me comes a man
who is preferred before me, for he was before me.’ I didn’t
know him, but for this reason I came baptizing in water: that he
would be revealed to Israel.” John testified, saying, “I
have seen the Spirit descending like a dove out of heaven, and it
remained on him. I didn’t recognize him, but he who sent me to
baptize in water, he said to me, ‘On whomever you will see the
Spirit descending, and remaining on him, the same is he who baptizes
in the Holy Spirit.’ I have seen, and have testified that this
is the Son of God.”

Again, the next day, John was standing
with two of his disciples, and he looked at Jesus as he walked, and
said, “Behold, the Lamb of God!” The two disciples heard
him speak, and they followed Jesus. Jesus turned, and saw them
following, and said to them, “What are you looking for?”

They said to him, “Rabbi”
(which is to say, being interpreted, Teacher), “where are you
staying?”

He said to them, “Come, and see.”

They came and saw where he was staying,
and they stayed with him that day. It was about the tenth hour. One
of the two who heard John, and followed him, was Andrew, Simon
Peter’s brother. He first found his own brother, Simon, and
said to him, “We have found the Messiah!” (which is,
being interpreted, Christ). He brought him to Jesus. Jesus looked at
him, and said, “You are Simon the son of Jonah. You shall be
called Cephas” (which is by interpretation, Peter). On the next
day, he was determined to go out into Galilee, and he found Philip.
Jesus said to him, “Follow me.” Now Philip was from
Bethsaida, of the city of Andrew and Peter. Philip found Nathanael,
and said to him, “We have found him, of whom Moses in the law,
and the prophets, wrote: Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.”

Nathanael said to him, “Can any
good thing come out of Nazareth?”

Philip said to him, “Come and
see.”

Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and
said about him, “Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no
deceit!”

Nathanael said to him, “How do
you know me?”

Jesus answered him, “Before
Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you.”

Nathanael answered him, “Rabbi,
you are the Son of God! You are King of Israel!”

Jesus answered him, “Because I
told you, ‘I saw you underneath the fig tree,’ do you
believe? You will see greater things than these!” He said to
him, “Most certainly, I tell you, hereafter you will see heaven
opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of
Man.”

The third day, there was a marriage in
Cana of Galilee. Jesus’ mother was there. Jesus also was
invited, with his disciples, to the marriage. When the wine ran out,
Jesus’ mother said to him, “They have no wine.”

Jesus said to her, “Woman, what
does that have to do with you and me? My hour has not yet come.”

His mother said to the servants,
“Whatever he says to you, do it.” Now there were six
water pots of stone set there after the Jews’ way of purifying,
containing two or three metretes apiece. Jesus said to them, “Fill
the water pots with water.” They filled them up to the brim. He
said to them, “Now draw some out, and take it to the ruler of
the feast.” So they took it. When the ruler of the feast tasted
the water now become wine, and didn’t know where it came from
(but the servants who had drawn the water knew), the ruler of the
feast called the bridegroom, and said to him, “Everyone serves
the good wine first, and when the guests have drunk freely, then that
which is worse. You have kept the good wine until now!” This
beginning of his signs Jesus did in Cana of Galilee, and revealed his
glory; and his disciples believed in him.

After this, he went down to Capernaum,
he, and his mother, his brothers, and his disciples; and they stayed
there a few days. The Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus
went up to Jerusalem. He found in the temple those who sold oxen,
sheep, and doves, and the changers of money sitting. He made a whip
of cords, and threw all out of the temple, both the sheep and the
oxen; and he poured out the changers’ money, and overthrew
their tables. To those who sold the doves, he said, “Take these
things out of here! Don’t make my Father’s house a
marketplace!” His disciples remembered that it was written,
“Zeal for your house will eat me up.”

The Jews therefore answered him, “What
sign do you show us, seeing that you do these things?”

Jesus answered them, “Destroy
this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.”

The Jews therefore said, “It took
forty-six years to build this temple! Will you raise it up in three
days?” But he spoke of the temple of his body. When therefore
he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he said
this, and they believed the Scripture, and the word which Jesus had
said.

Now when he was in Jerusalem at the
Passover, during the feast, many believed in his name, observing his
signs which he did. But Jesus didn’t trust himself to them,
because he knew everyone, and because he didn’t need for anyone
to testify concerning man; for he himself knew what was in man.

Now there was a man of the Pharisees
named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. The same came to him by night,
and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come
from God, for no one can do these signs that you do, unless God is
with him.”

Jesus answered him, “Most
certainly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can’t see
God’s Kingdom.”

Nicodemus said to him, “How can a
man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his
mother’s womb, and be born?”

Jesus answered, “Most certainly I
tell you, unless one is born of water and spirit, he can’t
enter into God’s Kingdom! That which is born of the flesh is
flesh. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Don’t marvel
that I said to you, ‘You must be born anew.’ The wind
blows where it wants to, and you hear its sound, but don’t know
where it comes from and where it is going. So is everyone who is born
of the Spirit.”

Nicodemus answered him, “How can
these things be?”

Jesus answered him, “Are you the
teacher of Israel, and don’t understand these things? Most
certainly I tell you, we speak that which we know, and testify of
that which we have seen, and you don’t receive our witness. If
I told you earthly things and you don’t believe, how will you
believe if I tell you heavenly things? No one has ascended into
heaven, but he who descended out of heaven, the Son of Man, who is in
heaven. As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so
must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in him should
not perish, but have eternal life. For God so loved the world, that
he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not
perish, but have eternal life. For God didn’t send his Son into
the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved
through him. He who believes in him is not judged. He who doesn’t
believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the
name of the one and only Son of God. This is the judgment, that the
light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than
the light; for their works were evil. For everyone who does evil
hates the light, and doesn’t come to the light, lest his works
would be exposed. But he who does the truth comes to the light, that
his works may be revealed, that they have been done in God.”

After these things, Jesus came with his
disciples into the land of Judea. He stayed there with them, and
baptized. John also was baptizing in Enon near Salim, because there
was much water there. They came, and were baptized. For John was not
yet thrown into prison. There arose therefore a questioning on the
part of John’s disciples with some Jews about purification.
They came to John, and said to him, “Rabbi, he who was with you
beyond the Jordan, to whom you have testified, behold, the same
baptizes, and everyone is coming to him.”

John answered, “A man can receive
nothing, unless it has been given him from heaven. You yourselves
testify that I said, ‘I am not the Christ,’ but, ‘I
have been sent before him.’ He who has the bride is the
bridegroom; but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears
him, rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom’s voice. This,
my joy, therefore is made full. He must increase, but I must
decrease. He who comes from above is above all. He who is from the
earth belongs to the earth, and speaks of the earth. He who comes
from heaven is above all. What he has seen and heard, of that he
testifies; and no one receives his witness. He who has received his
witness has set his seal to this, that God is true. For he whom God
has sent speaks the words of God; for God gives the Spirit without
measure. The Father loves the Son, and has given all things into his
hand. One who believes in the Son has eternal life, but one who
disobeys the Son won’t see life, but the wrath of God remains
on him.”

Therefore when the Lord knew that the
Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more
disciples than John (although Jesus himself didn’t baptize, but
his disciples), he left Judea, and departed into Galilee. He needed
to pass through Samaria. So he came to a city of Samaria, called
Sychar, near the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son, Joseph.
Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore, being tired from his
journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour. A woman
of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give me a
drink.” For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy
food.

The Samaritan woman therefore said to
him, “How is it that you, being a Jew, ask for a drink from me,
a Samaritan woman?” (For Jews have no dealings with
Samaritans.)

Jesus answered her, “If you knew
the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give me a
drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you
living water.”

The woman said to him, “Sir, you
have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. So where do you get
that living water? Are you greater than our father, Jacob, who gave
us the well, and drank of it himself, as did his children, and his
livestock?”

Jesus answered her, “Everyone who
drinks of this water will thirst again, but whoever drinks of the
water that I will give him will never thirst again; but the water
that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up
to eternal life.”

The woman said to him, “Sir, give
me this water, so that I don’t get thirsty, neither come all
the way here to draw.”

Jesus said to her, “Go, call your
husband, and come here.”

The woman answered, “I have no
husband.”

Jesus said to her, “You said
well, ‘I have no husband,’ for you have had five
husbands; and he whom you now have is not your husband. This you have
said truly.”

The woman said to him, “Sir, I
perceive that you are a prophet. Our fathers worshiped in this
mountain, and you Jews say that in Jerusalem is the place where
people ought to worship.”

Jesus said to her, “Woman,
believe me, the hour comes, when neither in this mountain, nor in
Jerusalem, will you worship the Father. You worship that which you
don’t know. We worship that which we know; for salvation is
from the Jews. But the hour comes, and now is, when the true
worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the
Father seeks such to be his worshipers. God is spirit, and those who
worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”

The woman said to him, “I know
that Messiah comes, he who is called Christ. When he has come, he
will declare to us all things.”

Jesus said to her, “I am he, the
one who speaks to you.” At this, his disciples came. They
marveled that he was speaking with a woman; yet no one said, “What
are you looking for?” or, “Why do you speak with her?”
So the woman left her water pot, and went away into the city, and
said to the people, “Come, see a man who told me everything
that I did. Can this be the Christ?”

They went out of the city, and were
coming to him. In the meanwhile, the disciples urged him, saying,
“Rabbi, eat.”

But he said to them, “I have food
to eat that you don’t know about.”

The disciples therefore said to one
another, “Has anyone brought him something to eat?”

Jesus said to them, “My food is
to do the will of him who sent me, and to accomplish his work. Don’t
you say, ‘There are yet four months until the harvest?’
Behold, I tell you, lift up your eyes, and look at the fields, that
they are white for harvest already. He who reaps receives wages, and
gathers fruit to eternal life; that both he who sows and he who reaps
may rejoice together. For in this the saying is true, ‘One
sows, and another reaps.’ I sent you to reap that for which you
haven’t labored. Others have labored, and you have entered into
their labor.”

From that city many of the Samaritans
believed in him because of the word of the woman, who testified, “He
told me everything that I did.” So when the Samaritans came to
him, they begged him to stay with them. He stayed there two days.
Many more believed because of his word. They said to the woman, “Now
we believe, not because of your speaking; for we have heard for
ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Savior of the
world.”

After the two days he went out from
there and went into Galilee. For Jesus himself testified that a
prophet has no honor in his own country. So when he came into
Galilee, the Galileans received him, having seen all the things that
he did in Jerusalem at the feast, for they also went to the feast.
Jesus came therefore again to Cana of Galilee, where he made the
water into wine. There was a certain nobleman whose son was sick at
Capernaum. When he heard that Jesus had come out of Judea into
Galilee, he went to him, and begged him that he would come down and
heal his son, for he was at the point of death. Jesus therefore said
to him, “Unless you see signs and wonders, you will in no way
believe.”

The nobleman said to him, “Sir,
come down before my child dies.” Jesus said to him, “Go
your way. Your son lives.” The man believed the word that Jesus
spoke to him, and he went his way. As he was now going down, his
servants met him and reported, saying “Your child lives!”
So he inquired of them the hour when he began to get better. They
said therefore to him, “Yesterday at the seventh hour, the
fever left him.” So the father knew that it was at that hour in
which Jesus said to him, “Your son lives.” He believed,
as did his whole house. This is again the second sign that Jesus did,
having come out of Judea into Galilee.

After these things, there was a feast
of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. Now in Jerusalem by the
sheep gate, there is a pool, which is called in Hebrew, “Bethesda”,
having five porches. In these lay a great multitude of those who were
sick, blind, lame, or paralyzed, waiting for the moving of the water;
for an angel went down at certain times into the pool, and stirred up
the water. Whoever stepped in first after the stirring of the water
was healed of whatever disease he had. A certain man was there, who
had been sick for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him lying there,
and knew that he had been sick for a long time, he asked him, “Do
you want to be made well?”

The sick man answered him, “Sir,
I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up,
but while I’m coming, another steps down before me.”

Jesus said to him, “Arise, take
up your mat, and walk.”

Immediately, the man was made well, and
took up his mat and walked.

Now it was the Sabbath on that day. So
the Jews said to him who was cured, “It is the Sabbath. It is
not lawful for you to carry the mat.”

He answered them, “He who made me
well, the same said to me, ‘Take up your mat, and walk.’”

Then they asked him, “Who is the
man who said to you, ‘Take up your mat, and walk’?”

But he who was healed didn’t know
who it was, for Jesus had withdrawn, a crowd being in the place.

Afterward Jesus found him in the
temple, and said to him, “Behold, you are made well. Sin no
more, so that nothing worse happens to you.”

The man went away, and told the Jews
that it was Jesus who had made him well. For this cause the Jews
persecuted Jesus, and sought to kill him, because he did these things
on the Sabbath. But Jesus answered them, “My Father is still
working, so I am working, too.” For this cause therefore the
Jews sought all the more to kill him, because he not only broke the
Sabbath, but also called God his own Father, making himself equal
with God. Jesus therefore answered them, “Most certainly, I
tell you, the Son can do nothing of himself, but what he sees the
Father doing. For whatever things he does, these the Son also does
likewise. For the Father has affection for the Son, and shows him all
things that he himself does. He will show him greater works than
these, that you may marvel. For as the Father raises the dead and
gives them life, even so the Son also gives life to whom he desires.
For the Father judges no one, but he has given all judgment to the
Son, that all may honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. He
who doesn’t honor the Son doesn’t honor the Father who
sent him.

“Most certainly I tell you, he
who hears my word, and believes him who sent me, has eternal life,
and doesn’t come into judgment, but has passed out of death
into life. Most certainly, I tell you, the hour comes, and now is,
when the dead will hear the Son of God’s voice; and those who
hear will live. For as the Father has life in himself, even so he
gave to the Son also to have life in himself. He also gave him
authority to execute judgment, because he is a son of man. Don’t
marvel at this, for the hour comes, in which all that are in the
tombs will hear his voice, and will come out; those who have done
good, to the resurrection of life; and those who have done evil, to
the resurrection of judgment. I can of myself do nothing. As I hear,
I judge, and my judgment is righteous; because I don’t seek my
own will, but the will of my Father who sent me.

“If I testify about myself, my
witness is not valid. It is another who testifies about me. I know
that the testimony which he testifies about me is true. You have sent
to John, and he has testified to the truth. But the testimony which I
receive is not from man. However, I say these things that you may be
saved. He was the burning and shining lamp, and you were willing to
rejoice for a while in his light. But the testimony which I have is
greater than that of John, for the works which the Father gave me to
accomplish, the very works that I do, testify about me, that the
Father has sent me. The Father himself, who sent me, has testified
about me. You have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his
form. You don’t have his word living in you; because you don’t
believe him whom he sent.

“You search the Scriptures,
because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are
they which testify about me. Yet you will not come to me, that you
may have life. I don’t receive glory from men. But I know you,
that you don’t have God’s love in yourselves. I have come
in my Father’s name, and you don’t receive me. If another
comes in his own name, you will receive him. How can you believe, who
receive glory from one another, and you don’t seek the glory
that comes from the only God?

“Don’t think that I will
accuse you to the Father. There is one who accuses you, even Moses,
on whom you have set your hope. For if you believed Moses, you would
believe me; for he wrote about me. But if you don’t believe his
writings, how will you believe my words?”

After these things, Jesus went away to
the other side of the sea of Galilee, which is also called the Sea of
Tiberias. A great multitude followed him, because they saw his signs
which he did on those who were sick. Jesus went up into the mountain,
and he sat there with his disciples. Now the Passover, the feast of
the Jews, was at hand. Jesus therefore lifting up his eyes, and
seeing that a great multitude was coming to him, said to Philip,
“Where are we to buy bread, that these may eat?” This he
said to test him, for he himself knew what he would do.

Philip answered him, “Two hundred
denarii worth of bread is not sufficient for them, that everyone of
them may receive a little.”

One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon
Peter’s brother, said to him, “There is a boy here who
has five barley loaves and two fish, but what are these among so
many?”

Jesus said, “Have the people sit
down.” Now there was much grass in that place. So the men sat
down, in number about five thousand. Jesus took the loaves; and
having given thanks, he distributed to the disciples, and the
disciples to those who were sitting down; likewise also of the fish
as much as they desired. When they were filled, he said to his
disciples, “Gather up the broken pieces which are left over,
that nothing be lost.” So they gathered them up, and filled
twelve baskets with broken pieces from the five barley loaves, which
were left over by those who had eaten. When therefore the people saw
the sign which Jesus did, they said, “This is truly the prophet
who comes into the world.” Jesus therefore, perceiving that
they were about to come and take him by force, to make him king,
withdrew again to the mountain by himself.

When evening came, his disciples went
down to the sea, and they entered into the boat, and were going over
the sea to Capernaum. It was now dark, and Jesus had not come to
them. The sea was tossed by a great wind blowing. When therefore they
had rowed about twenty-five or thirty stadia, they saw Jesus walking
on the sea, and drawing near to the boat; and they were afraid. But
he said to them, “It is I. Don’t be afraid.” They
were willing therefore to receive him into the boat. Immediately the
boat was at the land where they were going.

On the next day, the multitude that
stood on the other side of the sea saw that there was no other boat
there, except the one in which his disciples had embarked, and that
Jesus hadn’t entered with his disciples into the boat, but his
disciples had gone away alone. However boats from Tiberias came near
to the place where they ate the bread after the Lord had given
thanks. When the multitude therefore saw that Jesus wasn’t
there, nor his disciples, they themselves got into the boats, and
came to Capernaum, seeking Jesus. When they found him on the other
side of the sea, they asked him, “Rabbi, when did you come
here?”

Jesus answered them, “Most
certainly I tell you, you seek me, not because you saw signs, but
because you ate of the loaves, and were filled. Don’t work for
the food which perishes, but for the food which remains to eternal
life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has
sealed him.”

They said therefore to him, “What
must we do, that we may work the works of God?”

Jesus answered them, “This is the
work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent.”

They said therefore to him, “What
then do you do for a sign, that we may see, and believe you? What
work do you do? Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness. As it is
written, ‘He gave them bread out of heaven to eat.’”

Jesus therefore said to them, “Most
certainly, I tell you, it wasn’t Moses who gave you the bread
out of heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread out of heaven.
For the bread of God is that which comes down out of heaven, and
gives life to the world.”

They said therefore to him, “Lord,
always give us this bread.”

Jesus said to them, “I am the
bread of life. He who comes to me will not be hungry, and he who
believes in me will never be thirsty. But I told you that you have
seen me, and yet you don’t believe. All those whom the Father
gives me will come to me. He who comes to me I will in no way throw
out. For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the
will of him who sent me. This is the will of my Father who sent me,
that of all he has given to me I should lose nothing, but should
raise him up at the last day. This is the will of the one who sent
me, that everyone who sees the Son, and believes in him, should have
eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.”

The Jews therefore murmured concerning
him, because he said, “I am the bread which came down out of
heaven.” They said, “Isn’t this Jesus, the son of
Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How then does he say, ‘I
have come down out of heaven?’”

Therefore Jesus answered them, “Don’t
murmur among yourselves. No one can come to me unless the Father who
sent me draws him, and I will raise him up in the last day. It is
written in the prophets, ‘They will all be taught by God.’
Therefore everyone who hears from the Father, and has learned, comes
to me. Not that anyone has seen the Father, except he who is from
God. He has seen the Father. Most certainly, I tell you, he who
believes in me has eternal life. I am the bread of life. Your fathers
ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died. This is the bread
which comes down out of heaven, that anyone may eat of it and not
die. I am the living bread which came down out of heaven. If anyone
eats of this bread, he will live forever. Yes, the bread which I will
give for the life of the world is my flesh.”

The Jews therefore contended with one
another, saying, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?”

Jesus therefore said to them, “Most
certainly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and
drink his blood, you don’t have life in yourselves. He who eats
my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him
up at the last day. For my flesh is food indeed, and my blood is
drink indeed. He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood lives in me,
and I in him. As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the
Father; so he who feeds on me, he will also live because of me. This
is the bread which came down out of heaven—not as our fathers
ate the manna, and died. He who eats this bread will live forever.”
He said these things in the synagogue, as he taught in Capernaum.

Therefore many of his disciples, when
they heard this, said, “This is a hard saying! Who can listen
to it?”

But Jesus knowing in himself that his
disciples murmured at this, said to them, “Does this cause you
to stumble? Then what if you would see the Son of Man ascending to
where he was before? It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh
profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are
life. But there are some of you who don’t believe.” For
Jesus knew from the beginning who they were who didn’t believe,
and who it was who would betray him. He said, “For this cause
have I said to you that no one can come to me, unless it is given to
him by my Father.”

At this, many of his disciples went
back, and walked no more with him. Jesus said therefore to the
twelve, “You don’t also want to go away, do you?”

Simon Peter answered him, “Lord,
to whom would we go? You have the words of eternal life. We have come
to believe and know that you are the Christ, the Son of the living
God.”

Jesus answered them, “Didn’t
I choose you, the twelve, and one of you is a devil?” Now he
spoke of Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot, for it was he who would
betray him, being one of the twelve.

After these things, Jesus was walking
in Galilee, for he wouldn’t walk in Judea, because the Jews
sought to kill him. Now the feast of the Jews, the Feast of Booths,
was at hand. His brothers therefore said to him, “Depart from
here, and go into Judea, that your disciples also may see your works
which you do. For no one does anything in secret, and himself seeks
to be known openly. If you do these things, reveal yourself to the
world.” For even his brothers didn’t believe in him.

Jesus therefore said to them, “My
time has not yet come, but your time is always ready. The world can’t
hate you, but it hates me, because I testify about it, that its works
are evil. You go up to the feast. I am not yet going up to this
feast, because my time is not yet fulfilled.”

Having said these things to them, he
stayed in Galilee. But when his brothers had gone up to the feast,
then he also went up, not publicly, but as it were in secret. The
Jews therefore sought him at the feast, and said, “Where is
he?” There was much murmuring among the multitudes concerning
him. Some said, “He is a good man.” Others said, “Not
so, but he leads the multitude astray.” Yet no one spoke openly
of him for fear of the Jews. But when it was now the middle of the
feast, Jesus went up into the temple and taught. The Jews therefore
marveled, saying, “How does this man know letters, having never
been educated?”

Jesus therefore answered them, “My
teaching is not mine, but his who sent me. If anyone desires to do
his will, he will know about the teaching, whether it is from God, or
if I am speaking from myself. He who speaks from himself seeks his
own glory, but he who seeks the glory of him who sent him is true,
and no unrighteousness is in him. Didn’t Moses give you the
law, and yet none of you keeps the law? Why do you seek to kill me?”

The multitude answered, “You have
a demon! Who seeks to kill you?”

Jesus answered them, “I did one
work, and you all marvel because of it. Moses has given you
circumcision (not that it is of Moses, but of the fathers), and on
the Sabbath you circumcise a boy. If a boy receives circumcision on
the Sabbath, that the law of Moses may not be broken, are you angry
with me, because I made a man completely healthy on the Sabbath?
Don’t judge according to appearance, but judge righteous
judgment.”

Therefore some of them of Jerusalem
said, “Isn’t this he whom they seek to kill? Behold, he
speaks openly, and they say nothing to him. Can it be that the rulers
indeed know that this is truly the Christ? However we know where this
man comes from, but when the Christ comes, no one will know where he
comes from.”

Jesus therefore cried out in the
temple, teaching and saying, “You both know me, and know where
I am from. I have not come of myself, but he who sent me is true,
whom you don’t know. I know him, because I am from him, and he
sent me.”

They sought therefore to take him; but
no one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come. But of
the multitude, many believed in him. They said, “When the
Christ comes, he won’t do more signs than those which this man
has done, will he?” The Pharisees heard the multitude murmuring
these things concerning him, and the chief priests and the Pharisees
sent officers to arrest him.

Then Jesus said, “I will be with
you a little while longer, then I go to him who sent me. You will
seek me, and won’t find me; and where I am, you can’t
come.”

The Jews therefore said among
themselves, “Where will this man go that we won’t find
him? Will he go to the Dispersion among the Greeks, and teach the
Greeks? What is this word that he said, ‘You will seek me, and
won’t find me; and where I am, you can’t come’?”

Now on the last and greatest day of the
feast, Jesus stood and cried out, “If anyone is thirsty, let
him come to me and drink! He who believes in me, as the Scripture has
said, from within him will flow rivers of living water.” But he
said this about the Spirit, which those believing in him were to
receive. For the Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus wasn’t
yet glorified.

Many of the multitude therefore, when
they heard these words, said, “This is truly the prophet.”
Others said, “This is the Christ.” But some said, “What,
does the Christ come out of Galilee? Hasn’t the Scripture said
that the Christ comes of the offspring of David, and from Bethlehem,
the village where David was?” So there arose a division in the
multitude because of him. Some of them would have arrested him, but
no one laid hands on him. The officers therefore came to the chief
priests and Pharisees, and they said to them, “Why didn’t
you bring him?”

The officers answered, “No man
ever spoke like this man!”

The Pharisees therefore answered them,
“You aren’t also led astray, are you? Have any of the
rulers believed in him, or of the Pharisees? But this multitude that
doesn’t know the law is accursed.”

Nicodemus (he who came to him by night,
being one of them) said to them, “Does our law judge a man,
unless it first hears from him personally and knows what he does?”

They answered him, “Are you also
from Galilee? Search, and see that no prophet has arisen out of
Galilee.”

Everyone went to his own house,

but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.
Now very early in the morning, he came again into the temple, and all
the people came to him. He sat down, and taught them. The scribes and
the Pharisees brought a woman taken in adultery. Having set her in
the middle, they told him, “Teacher, we found this woman in
adultery, in the very act. Now in our law, Moses commanded us to
stone such women. What then do you say about her?” They said
this testing him, that they might have something to accuse him of.

But Jesus stooped down, and wrote on
the ground with his finger. But when they continued asking him, he
looked up and said to them, “He who is without sin among you,
let him throw the first stone at her.” Again he stooped down,
and with his finger wrote on the ground.

They, when they heard it, being
convicted by their conscience, went out one by one, beginning from
the oldest, even to the last. Jesus was left alone with the woman
where she was, in the middle. Jesus, standing up, saw her and said,
“Woman, where are your accusers? Did no one condemn you?”

She said, “No one, Lord.”

Jesus said, “Neither do I condemn
you. Go your way. From now on, sin no more.”

Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to them,
saying, “I am the light of the world. He who follows me will
not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”

The Pharisees therefore said to him,
“You testify about yourself. Your testimony is not valid.”

Jesus answered them, “Even if I
testify about myself, my testimony is true, for I know where I came
from, and where I am going; but you don’t know where I came
from, or where I am going. You judge according to the flesh. I judge
no one. Even if I do judge, my judgment is true, for I am not alone,
but I am with the Father who sent me. It’s also written in your
law that the testimony of two people is valid. I am one who testifies
about myself, and the Father who sent me testifies about me.”

They said therefore to him, “Where
is your Father?”

Jesus answered, “You know neither
me, nor my Father. If you knew me, you would know my Father also.”
Jesus spoke these words in the treasury, as he taught in the temple.
Yet no one arrested him, because his hour had not yet come. Jesus
said therefore again to them, “I am going away, and you will
seek me, and you will die in your sins. Where I go, you can’t
come.”

The Jews therefore said, “Will he
kill himself, that he says, ‘Where I am going, you can’t
come’?”

He said to them, “You are from
beneath. I am from above. You are of this world. I am not of this
world. I said therefore to you that you will die in your sins; for
unless you believe that I am he, you will die in your sins.”

They said therefore to him, “Who
are you?”

Jesus said to them, “Just what I
have been saying to you from the beginning. I have many things to
speak and to judge concerning you. However he who sent me is true;
and the things which I heard from him, these I say to the world.”

They didn’t understand that he
spoke to them about the Father. Jesus therefore said to them, “When
you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he,
and I do nothing of myself, but as my Father taught me, I say these
things. He who sent me is with me. The Father hasn’t left me
alone, for I always do the things that are pleasing to him.”

As he spoke these things, many believed
in him. Jesus therefore said to those Jews who had believed him, “If
you remain in my word, then you are truly my disciples. You will know
the truth, and the truth will make you free.”

They answered him, “We are
Abraham’s offspring, and have never been in bondage to anyone.
How do you say, ‘You will be made free’?”

Jesus answered them, “Most
certainly I tell you, everyone who commits sin is the bondservant of
sin. A bondservant doesn’t live in the house forever. A son
remains forever. If therefore the Son makes you free, you will be
free indeed. I know that you are Abraham’s offspring, yet you
seek to kill me, because my word finds no place in you. I say the
things which I have seen with my Father; and you also do the things
which you have seen with your father.”

They answered him, “Our father is
Abraham.”

Jesus said to them, “If you were
Abraham’s children, you would do the works of Abraham. But now
you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth, which I heard
from God. Abraham didn’t do this. You do the works of your
father.”

They said to him, “We were not
born of sexual immorality. We have one Father, God.”

Therefore Jesus said to them, “If
God were your father, you would love me, for I came out and have come
from God. For I haven’t come of myself, but he sent me. Why
don’t you understand my speech? Because you can’t hear my
word. You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the
desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and
doesn’t stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him.
When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and its
father. But because I tell the truth, you don’t believe me.
Which of you convicts me of sin? If I tell the truth, why do you not
believe me? He who is of God hears the words of God. For this cause
you don’t hear, because you are not of God.”

Then the Jews answered him, “Don’t
we say well that you are a Samaritan, and have a demon?”

Jesus answered, “I don’t
have a demon, but I honor my Father, and you dishonor me. But I don’t
seek my own glory. There is one who seeks and judges. Most certainly,
I tell you, if a person keeps my word, he will never see death.”

Then the Jews said to him, “Now
we know that you have a demon. Abraham died, and the prophets; and
you say, ‘If a man keeps my word, he will never taste of
death.’ Are you greater than our father, Abraham, who died? The
prophets died. Who do you make yourself out to be?”

Jesus answered, “If I glorify
myself, my glory is nothing. It is my Father who glorifies me, of
whom you say that he is our God. You have not known him, but I know
him. If I said, ‘I don’t know him,’ I would be like
you, a liar. But I know him, and keep his word. Your father Abraham
rejoiced to see my day. He saw it, and was glad.”

The Jews therefore said to him, “You
are not yet fifty years old, and have you seen Abraham?”

Jesus said to them, “Most
certainly, I tell you, before Abraham came into existence, I AM.”

Therefore they took up stones to throw
at him, but Jesus was hidden, and went out of the temple, having gone
through the middle of them, and so passed by.

As he passed by, he saw a man blind
from birth. His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this
man or his parents, that he was born blind?”

Jesus answered, “Neither did this
man sin, nor his parents; but, that the works of God might be
revealed in him. I must work the works of him who sent me, while it
is day. The night is coming, when no one can work. While I am in the
world, I am the light of the world.” When he had said this, he
spat on the ground, made mud with the saliva, anointed the blind
man’s eyes with the mud, and said to him, “Go, wash in
the pool of Siloam” (which means “Sent”). So he
went away, washed, and came back seeing. The neighbors therefore, and
those who saw that he was blind before, said, “Isn’t this
he who sat and begged?” Others were saying, “It is he.”
Still others were saying, “He looks like him.”

He answered, “A man called Jesus
made mud, anointed my eyes, and said to me, ‘Go to the pool of
Siloam, and wash.’ So I went away and washed, and I received
sight.”

Then they asked him, “Where is
he?”

He said, “I don’t know.”

They brought him who had been blind to
the Pharisees. It was a Sabbath when Jesus made the mud and opened
his eyes. Again therefore the Pharisees also asked him how he
received his sight. He said to them, “He put mud on my eyes, I
washed, and I see.”

Some therefore of the Pharisees said,
“This man is not from God, because he doesn’t keep the
Sabbath.” Others said, “How can a man who is a sinner do
such signs?” There was division among them. Therefore they
asked the blind man again, “What do you say about him, because
he opened your eyes?”

He said, “He is a prophet.”

The Jews therefore did not believe
concerning him, that he had been blind, and had received his sight,
until they called the parents of him who had received his sight, and
asked them, “Is this your son, whom you say was born blind? How
then does he now see?”

His parents answered them, “We
know that this is our son, and that he was born blind; but how he now
sees, we don’t know; or who opened his eyes, we don’t
know. He is of age. Ask him. He will speak for himself.” His
parents said these things because they feared the Jews; for the Jews
had already agreed that if any man would confess him as Christ, he
would be put out of the synagogue. Therefore his parents said, “He
is of age. Ask him.”

So they called the man who was blind a
second time, and said to him, “Give glory to God. We know that
this man is a sinner.”

He therefore answered, “I don’t
know if he is a sinner. One thing I do know: that though I was blind,
now I see.”

They said to him again, “What did
he do to you? How did he open your eyes?”

He answered them, “I told you
already, and you didn’t listen. Why do you want to hear it
again? You don’t also want to become his disciples, do you?”

They insulted him and said, “You
are his disciple, but we are disciples of Moses. We know that God has
spoken to Moses. But as for this man, we don’t know where he
comes from.”

The man answered them, “How
amazing! You don’t know where he comes from, yet he opened my
eyes. We know that God doesn’t listen to sinners, but if anyone
is a worshiper of God, and does his will, he listens to him. Since
the world began it has never been heard of that anyone opened the
eyes of someone born blind. If this man were not from God, he could
do nothing.”

They answered him, “You were
altogether born in sins, and do you teach us?” They threw him
out.

Jesus heard that they had thrown him
out, and finding him, he said, “Do you believe in the Son of
God?”

He answered, “Who is he, Lord,
that I may believe in him?”

Jesus said to him, “You have both
seen him, and it is he who speaks with you.”

He said, “Lord, I believe!”
and he worshiped him.

Jesus said, “I came into this
world for judgment, that those who don’t see may see; and that
those who see may become blind.”

Those of the Pharisees who were with
him heard these things, and said to him, “Are we also blind?”

Jesus said to them, “If you were
blind, you would have no sin; but now you say, ‘We see.’
Therefore your sin remains.

“Most certainly, I tell you, one
who doesn’t enter by the door into the sheep fold, but climbs
up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber. But one who
enters in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. The gatekeeper
opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen to his voice. He calls
his own sheep by name, and leads them out. Whenever he brings out his
own sheep, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, for they
know his voice. They will by no means follow a stranger, but will
flee from him; for they don’t know the voice of strangers.”
Jesus spoke this parable to them, but they didn’t understand
what he was telling them.

Jesus therefore said to them again,
“Most certainly, I tell you, I am the sheep’s door. All
who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep didn’t
listen to them. I am the door. If anyone enters in by me, he will be
saved, and will go in and go out, and will find pasture. The thief
only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have
life, and may have it abundantly. I am the good shepherd. The good
shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. He who is a hired hand,
and not a shepherd, who doesn’t own the sheep, sees the wolf
coming, leaves the sheep, and flees. The wolf snatches the sheep, and
scatters them. The hired hand flees because he is a hired hand, and
doesn’t care for the sheep. I am the good shepherd. I know my
own, and I’m known by my own; even as the Father knows me, and
I know the Father. I lay down my life for the sheep. I have other
sheep, which are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they
will hear my voice. They will become one flock with one shepherd.
Therefore the Father loves me, because I lay down my life, that I may
take it again. No one takes it away from me, but I lay it down by
myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it
again. I received this commandment from my Father.”

Therefore a division arose again among
the Jews because of these words. Many of them said, “He has a
demon, and is insane! Why do you listen to him?” Others said,
“These are not the sayings of one possessed by a demon. It
isn’t possible for a demon to open the eyes of the blind, is
it?”

It was the Feast of the Dedication at
Jerusalem. It was winter, and Jesus was walking in the temple, in
Solomon’s porch. The Jews therefore came around him and said to
him, “How long will you hold us in suspense? If you are the
Christ, tell us plainly.”

Jesus answered them, “I told you,
and you don’t believe. The works that I do in my Father’s
name, these testify about me. But you don’t believe, because
you are not of my sheep, as I told you. My sheep hear my voice, and I
know them, and they follow me. I give eternal life to them. They will
never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. My Father,
who has given them to me, is greater than all. No one is able to
snatch them out of my Father’s hand. I and the Father are one.”

Therefore Jews took up stones again to
stone him. Jesus answered them, “I have shown you many good
works from my Father. For which of those works do you stone me?”

The Jews answered him, “We don’t
stone you for a good work, but for blasphemy: because you, being a
man, make yourself God.”

Jesus answered them, “Isn’t
it written in your law, ‘I said, you are gods?’ If he
called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture
can’t be broken), do you say of him whom the Father sanctified
and sent into the world, ‘You blaspheme,’ because I said,
‘I am the Son of God?’ If I don’t do the works of
my Father, don’t believe me. But if I do them, though you don’t
believe me, believe the works; that you may know and believe that the
Father is in me, and I in the Father.”

They sought again to seize him, and he
went out of their hand. He went away again beyond the Jordan into the
place where John was baptizing at first, and there he stayed. Many
came to him. They said, “John indeed did no sign, but
everything that John said about this man is true.” Many
believed in him there.

Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus
from Bethany, of the village of Mary and her sister, Martha. It was
that Mary who had anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet
with her hair, whose brother, Lazarus, was sick. The sisters
therefore sent to him, saying, “Lord, behold, he for whom you
have great affection is sick.” But when Jesus heard it, he
said, “This sickness is not to death, but for the glory of God,
that God’s Son may be glorified by it.” Now Jesus loved
Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus. When therefore he heard that he
was sick, he stayed two days in the place where he was. Then after
this he said to the disciples, “Let’s go into Judea
again.”

The disciples told him, “Rabbi,
the Jews were just trying to stone you, and are you going there
again?”

Jesus answered, “Aren’t
there twelve hours of daylight? If a man walks in the day, he doesn’t
stumble, because he sees the light of this world. But if a man walks
in the night, he stumbles, because the light isn’t in him.”
He said these things, and after that, he said to them, “Our
friend, Lazarus, has fallen asleep, but I am going so that I may
awake him out of sleep.”

The disciples therefore said, “Lord,
if he has fallen asleep, he will recover.”

Now Jesus had spoken of his death, but
they thought that he spoke of taking rest in sleep. So Jesus said to
them plainly then, “Lazarus is dead. I am glad for your sakes
that I was not there, so that you may believe. Nevertheless, let’s
go to him.”

Thomas therefore, who is called
Didymus, said to his fellow disciples, “Let’s go also,
that we may die with him.”

So when Jesus came, he found that he
had been in the tomb four days already. Now Bethany was near
Jerusalem, about fifteen stadia away. Many of the Jews had joined the
women around Martha and Mary, to console them concerning their
brother. Then when Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went and
met him, but Mary stayed in the house. Therefore Martha said to
Jesus, “Lord, if you would have been here, my brother wouldn’t
have died. Even now I know that, whatever you ask of God, God will
give you.” Jesus said to her, “Your brother will rise
again.”

Martha said to him, “I know that
he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day.”

Jesus said to her, “I am the
resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will still live,
even if he dies. Whoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do
you believe this?”

She said to him, “Yes, Lord. I
have come to believe that you are the Christ, God’s Son, he who
comes into the world.”

When she had said this, she went away,
and called Mary, her sister, secretly, saying, “The Teacher is
here, and is calling you.”

When she heard this, she arose quickly,
and went to him. Now Jesus had not yet come into the village, but was
in the place where Martha met him. Then the Jews who were with her in
the house, and were consoling her, when they saw Mary, that she rose
up quickly and went out, followed her, saying, “She is going to
the tomb to weep there.” Therefore when Mary came to where
Jesus was, and saw him, she fell down at his feet, saying to him,
“Lord, if you would have been here, my brother wouldn’t
have died.”

When Jesus therefore saw her weeping,
and the Jews weeping who came with her, he groaned in the spirit, and
was troubled, and said, “Where have you laid him?”

They told him, “Lord, come and
see.”

Jesus wept.

The Jews therefore said, “See how
much affection he had for him!” Some of them said, “Couldn’t
this man, who opened the eyes of him who was blind, have also kept
this man from dying?”

Jesus therefore, again groaning in
himself, came to the tomb. Now it was a cave, and a stone lay against
it. Jesus said, “Take away the stone.”

Martha, the sister of him who was dead,
said to him, “Lord, by this time there is a stench, for he has
been dead four days.”

Jesus said to her, “Didn’t
I tell you that if you believed, you would see God’s glory?”

So they took away the stone from the
place where the dead man was lying. Jesus lifted up his eyes, and
said, “Father, I thank you that you listened to me. I know that
you always listen to me, but because of the multitude that stands
around I said this, that they may believe that you sent me.”
When he had said this, he cried with a loud voice, “Lazarus,
come out!”

He who was dead came out, bound hand
and foot with wrappings, and his face was wrapped around with a
cloth.

Jesus said to them, “Free him,
and let him go.”

Therefore many of the Jews, who came to
Mary and saw what Jesus did, believed in him. But some of them went
away to the Pharisees, and told them the things which Jesus had done.
The chief priests therefore and the Pharisees gathered a council, and
said, “What are we doing? For this man does many signs. If we
leave him alone like this, everyone will believe in him, and the
Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.”

But a certain one of them, Caiaphas,
being high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at
all, nor do you consider that it is advantageous for us that one man
should die for the people, and that the whole nation not perish.”
Now he didn’t say this of himself, but being high priest that
year, he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation, and not for
the nation only, but that he might also gather together into one the
children of God who are scattered abroad. So from that day forward
they took counsel that they might put him to death. Jesus therefore
walked no more openly among the Jews, but departed from there into
the country near the wilderness, to a city called Ephraim. He stayed
there with his disciples.

Now the Passover of the Jews was at
hand. Many went up from the country to Jerusalem before the Passover,
to purify themselves. Then they sought for Jesus and spoke one with
another, as they stood in the temple, “What do you think—that
he isn’t coming to the feast at all?” Now the chief
priests and the Pharisees had commanded that if anyone knew where he
was, he should report it, that they might seize him.

Then six days before the Passover,
Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, who had been dead, whom he
raised from the dead. So they made him a supper there. Martha served,
but Lazarus was one of those who sat at the table with him. Mary,
therefore, took a pound of ointment of pure nard, very precious, and
anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair. The
house was filled with the fragrance of the ointment. Then Judas
Iscariot, Simon’s son, one of his disciples, who would betray
him, said, “Why wasn’t this ointment sold for three
hundred denarii, and given to the poor?” Now he said this, not
because he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief, and having
the money box, used to steal what was put into it. But Jesus said,
“Leave her alone. She has kept this for the day of my burial.
For you always have the poor with you, but you don’t always
have me.”

A large crowd therefore of the Jews
learned that he was there, and they came, not for Jesus’ sake
only, but that they might see Lazarus also, whom he had raised from
the dead. But the chief priests conspired to put Lazarus to death
also, because on account of him many of the Jews went away and
believed in Jesus.

On the next day a great multitude had
come to the feast. When they heard that Jesus was coming to
Jerusalem, they took the branches of the palm trees, and went out to
meet him, and cried out, “Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in
the name of the Lord, the King of Israel!”

Jesus, having found a young donkey, sat
on it. As it is written, “Don’t be afraid, daughter of
Zion. Behold, your King comes, sitting on a donkey’s colt.”
His disciples didn’t understand these things at first, but when
Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things were
written about him, and that they had done these things to him. The
multitude therefore that was with him when he called Lazarus out of
the tomb, and raised him from the dead, was testifying about it. For
this cause also the multitude went and met him, because they heard
that he had done this sign. The Pharisees therefore said among
themselves, “See how you accomplish nothing. Behold, the world
has gone after him.”

Now there were certain Greeks among
those that went up to worship at the feast. These, therefore, came to
Philip, who was from Bethsaida of Galilee, and asked him, saying,
“Sir, we want to see Jesus.” Philip came and told Andrew,
and in turn, Andrew came with Philip, and they told Jesus. Jesus
answered them, “The time has come for the Son of Man to be
glorified. Most certainly I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls
into the earth and dies, it remains by itself alone. But if it dies,
it bears much fruit. He who loves his life will lose it. He who hates
his life in this world will keep it to eternal life. If anyone serves
me, let him follow me. Where I am, there will my servant also be. If
anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.

“Now my soul is troubled. What
shall I say? ‘Father, save me from this time?’ But for
this cause I came to this time. Father, glorify your name!”

Then there came a voice out of the sky,
saying, “I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again.”

The multitude therefore, who stood by
and heard it, said that it had thundered. Others said, “An
angel has spoken to him.”

Jesus answered, “This voice
hasn’t come for my sake, but for your sakes. Now is the
judgment of this world. Now the prince of this world will be cast
out. And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to
myself.” But he said this, signifying by what kind of death he
should die. The multitude answered him, “We have heard out of
the law that the Christ remains forever. How do you say, ‘The
Son of Man must be lifted up?’ Who is this Son of Man?”

Jesus therefore said to them, “Yet
a little while the light is with you. Walk while you have the light,
that darkness doesn’t overtake you. He who walks in the
darkness doesn’t know where he is going. While you have the
light, believe in the light, that you may become children of light.”
Jesus said these things, and he departed and hid himself from them.
But though he had done so many signs before them, yet they didn’t
believe in him, that the word of Isaiah the prophet might be
fulfilled, which he spoke,

“Lord, who has believed our
report?

To whom has the arm of the Lord
been revealed?”

For this cause they couldn’t
believe, for Isaiah said again,

“He has blinded their eyes and he
hardened their heart,

lest they should see with their
eyes,

and perceive with their heart,

and would turn,

and I would heal them.”

Isaiah said these things when he saw
his glory, and spoke of him. Nevertheless even of the rulers many
believed in him, but because of the Pharisees they didn’t
confess it, so that they wouldn’t be put out of the synagogue,
for they loved men’s praise more than God’s praise.

Jesus cried out and said, “Whoever
believes in me, believes not in me, but in him who sent me. He who
sees me sees him who sent me. I have come as a light into the world,
that whoever believes in me may not remain in the darkness. If anyone
listens to my sayings, and doesn’t believe, I don’t judge
him. For I came not to judge the world, but to save the world. He who
rejects me, and doesn’t receive my sayings, has one who judges
him. The word that I spoke, the same will judge him in the last day.
For I spoke not from myself, but the Father who sent me, he gave me a
commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak. I know that
his commandment is eternal life. The things therefore which I speak,
even as the Father has said to me, so I speak.”

Now before the feast of the Passover,
Jesus, knowing that his time had come that he would depart from this
world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he
loved them to the end. During supper, the devil having already put
into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, to betray him,
Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands,
and that he came from God, and was going to God, arose from supper,
and laid aside his outer garments. He took a towel, and wrapped a
towel around his waist. Then he poured water into the basin, and
began to wash the disciples’ feet, and to wipe them with the
towel that was wrapped around him. Then he came to Simon Peter. He
said to him, “Lord, do you wash my feet?”

Jesus answered him, “You don’t
know what I am doing now, but you will understand later.”

Peter said to him, “You will
never wash my feet!”

Jesus answered him, “If I don’t
wash you, you have no part with me.”

Simon Peter said to him, “Lord,
not my feet only, but also my hands and my head!”

Jesus said to him, “Someone who
has bathed only needs to have his feet washed, but is completely
clean. You are clean, but not all of you.” For he knew him who
would betray him, therefore he said, “You are not all clean.”
So when he had washed their feet, put his outer garment back on, and
sat down again, he said to them, “Do you know what I have done
to you? You call me, ‘Teacher’ and ‘Lord.’
You say so correctly, for so I am. If I then, the Lord and the
Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s
feet. For I have given you an example, that you also should do as I
have done to you. Most certainly I tell you, a servant is not greater
than his lord, neither one who is sent greater than he who sent him.
If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them. I don’t
speak concerning all of you. I know whom I have chosen. But that the
Scripture may be fulfilled, ‘He who eats bread with me has
lifted up his heel against me.’ From now on, I tell you before
it happens, that when it happens, you may believe that I am he. Most
certainly I tell you, he who receives whomever I send, receives me;
and he who receives me, receives him who sent me.”

When Jesus had said this, he was
troubled in spirit, and testified, “Most certainly I tell you
that one of you will betray me.”

The disciples looked at one another,
perplexed about whom he spoke. One of his disciples, whom Jesus
loved, was at the table, leaning against Jesus’ breast. Simon
Peter therefore beckoned to him, and said to him, “Tell us who
it is of whom he speaks.”

He, leaning back, as he was, on Jesus’
breast, asked him, “Lord, who is it?”

Jesus therefore answered, “It is
he to whom I will give this piece of bread when I have dipped it.”
So when he had dipped the piece of bread, he gave it to Judas, the
son of Simon Iscariot. After the piece of bread, then Satan entered
into him.

Then Jesus said to him, “What you
do, do quickly.”

Now no man at the table knew why he
said this to him. For some thought, because Judas had the money box,
that Jesus said to him, “Buy what things we need for the
feast,” or that he should give something to the poor. Therefore
having received that morsel, he went out immediately. It was night.

When he had gone out, Jesus said, “Now
the Son of Man has been glorified, and God has been glorified in him.
If God has been glorified in him, God will also glorify him in
himself, and he will glorify him immediately. Little children, I will
be with you a little while longer. You will seek me, and as I said to
the Jews, ‘Where I am going, you can’t come,’ so
now I tell you. A new commandment I give to you, that you love one
another. Just as I have loved you, you also love one another. By this
everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for
one another.”

Simon Peter said to him, “Lord,
where are you going?”

Jesus answered, “Where I am
going, you can’t follow now, but you will follow afterwards.”

Peter said to him, “Lord, why
can’t I follow you now? I will lay down my life for you.”

Jesus answered him, “Will you lay
down your life for me? Most certainly I tell you, the rooster won’t
crow until you have denied me three times.

“Don’t let your heart be
troubled. Believe in God. Believe also in me. In my Father’s
house are many homes. If it weren’t so, I would have told you.
I am going to prepare a place for you. If I go and prepare a place
for you, I will come again, and will receive you to myself; that
where I am, you may be there also. Where I go, you know, and you know
the way.”

Thomas said to him, “Lord, we
don’t know where you are going. How can we know the way?”

Jesus said to him, “I am the way,
the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through
me. If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. From
now on, you know him, and have seen him.”

Philip said to him, “Lord, show
us the Father, and that will be enough for us.”

Jesus said to him, “Have I been
with you such a long time, and do you not know me, Philip? He who has
seen me has seen the Father. How do you say, ‘Show us the
Father?’ Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and
the Father in me? The words that I tell you, I speak not from myself;
but the Father who lives in me does his works. Believe me that I am
in the Father, and the Father in me; or else believe me for the very
works’ sake. Most certainly I tell you, he who believes in me,
the works that I do, he will do also; and he will do greater works
than these, because I am going to my Father. Whatever you will ask in
my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
If you will ask anything in my name, I will do it. If you love me,
keep my commandments. I will pray to the Father, and he will give you
another Counselor, that he may be with you forever,— the Spirit
of truth, whom the world can’t receive; for it doesn’t
see him, neither knows him. You know him, for he lives with you, and
will be in you. I will not leave you orphans. I will come to you. Yet
a little while, and the world will see me no more; but you will see
me. Because I live, you will live also. In that day you will know
that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you. One who has my
commandments, and keeps them, that person is one who loves me. One
who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and
will reveal myself to him.”

Judas (not Iscariot) said to him,
“Lord, what has happened that you are about to reveal yourself
to us, and not to the world?”

Jesus answered him, “If a man
loves me, he will keep my word. My Father will love him, and we will
come to him, and make our home with him. He who doesn’t love me
doesn’t keep my words. The word which you hear isn’t
mine, but the Father’s who sent me. I have said these things to
you, while still living with you. But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit,
whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things,
and will remind you of all that I said to you. Peace I leave with
you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, give I to you.
Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.
You heard how I told you, ‘I go away, and I come to you.’
If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I said ‘I am
going to my Father;’ for the Father is greater than I. Now I
have told you before it happens so that, when it happens, you may
believe. I will no more speak much with you, for the prince of the
world comes, and he has nothing in me. But that the world may know
that I love the Father, and as the Father commanded me, even so I do.
Arise, let us go from here.

“I am the true vine, and my
Father is the farmer. Every branch in me that doesn’t bear
fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that
it may bear more fruit. You are already pruned clean because of the
word which I have spoken to you. Remain in me, and I in you. As the
branch can’t bear fruit by itself, unless it remains in the
vine, so neither can you, unless you remain in me. I am the vine. You
are the branches. He who remains in me, and I in him, the same bears
much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. If a man doesn’t
remain in me, he is thrown out as a branch, and is withered; and they
gather them, throw them into the fire, and they are burned. If you
remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you
desire, and it will be done for you.

“In this is my Father glorified,
that you bear much fruit; and so you will be my disciples. Even as
the Father has loved me, I also have loved you. Remain in my love. If
you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love; even as I have
kept my Father’s commandments, and remain in his love. I have
spoken these things to you, that my joy may remain in you, and that
your joy may be made full.

“This is my commandment, that you
love one another, even as I have loved you. Greater love has no one
than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. You are my
friends, if you do whatever I command you. No longer do I call you
servants, for the servant doesn’t know what his lord does. But
I have called you friends, for everything that I heard from my
Father, I have made known to you. You didn’t choose me, but I
chose you, and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and
that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the
Father in my name, he may give it to you.

“I command these things to you,
that you may love one another. If the world hates you, you know that
it has hated me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the
world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since
I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. Remember
the word that I said to you: ‘A servant is not greater than his
lord.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If
they kept my word, they will keep yours also. But all these things
will they do to you for my name’s sake, because they don’t
know him who sent me. If I had not come and spoken to them, they
would not have had sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin. He
who hates me, hates my Father also. If I hadn’t done among them
the works which no one else did, they wouldn’t have had sin.
But now have they seen and also hated both me and my Father. But this
happened so that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their
law, ‘They hated me without a cause.’

“When the Counselor has come,
whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who
proceeds from the Father, he will testify about me. You will also
testify, because you have been with me from the beginning.

“These things have I spoken to
you, so that you wouldn’t be caused to stumble. They will put
you out of the synagogues. Yes, the time comes that whoever kills you
will think that he offers service to God. They will do these things
because they have not known the Father, nor me. But I have told you
these things, so that when the time comes, you may remember that I
told you about them. I didn’t tell you these things from the
beginning, because I was with you. But now I am going to him who sent
me, and none of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’ But
because I have told you these things, sorrow has filled your heart.
Nevertheless I tell you the truth: It is to your advantage that I go
away, for if I don’t go away, the Counselor won’t come to
you. But if I go, I will send him to you. When he has come, he will
convict the world about sin, about righteousness, and about judgment;
about sin, because they don’t believe in me; about
righteousness, because I am going to my Father, and you won’t
see me any more; about judgment, because the prince of this world has
been judged.

“I have yet many things to tell
you, but you can’t bear them now. However when he, the Spirit
of truth, has come, he will guide you into all truth, for he will not
speak from himself; but whatever he hears, he will speak. He will
declare to you things that are coming. He will glorify me, for he
will take from what is mine, and will declare it to you. All things
whatever the Father has are mine; therefore I said that he takes of
mine, and will declare it to you. A little while, and you will not
see me. Again a little while, and you will see me.”

Some of his disciples therefore said to
one another, “What is this that he says to us, ‘A little
while, and you won’t see me, and again a little while, and you
will see me;’ and, ‘Because I go to the Father’?”
They said therefore, “What is this that he says, ‘A
little while’? We don’t know what he is saying.”

Therefore Jesus perceived that they
wanted to ask him, and he said to them, “Do you inquire among
yourselves concerning this, that I said, ‘A little while, and
you won’t see me, and again a little while, and you will see
me?’ Most certainly I tell you, that you will weep and lament,
but the world will rejoice. You will be sorrowful, but your sorrow
will be turned into joy. A woman, when she gives birth, has sorrow,
because her time has come. But when she has delivered the child, she
doesn’t remember the anguish any more, for the joy that a human
being is born into the world. Therefore you now have sorrow, but I
will see you again, and your heart will rejoice, and no one will take
your joy away from you.

“In that day you will ask me no
questions. Most certainly I tell you, whatever you may ask of the
Father in my name, he will give it to you. Until now, you have asked
nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be
made full. I have spoken these things to you in figures of speech.
But the time is coming when I will no more speak to you in figures of
speech, but will tell you plainly about the Father. In that day you
will ask in my name; and I don’t say to you, that I will pray
to the Father for you, for the Father himself loves you, because you
have loved me, and have believed that I came from God. I came from
the Father, and have come into the world. Again, I leave the world,
and go to the Father.”

His disciples said to him, “Behold,
now you speak plainly, and speak no figures of speech. Now we know
that you know all things, and don’t need for anyone to question
you. By this we believe that you came from God.”

Jesus answered them, “Do you now
believe? Behold, the time is coming, yes, and has now come, that you
will be scattered, everyone to his own place, and you will leave me
alone. Yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me. I have told
you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you
have oppression; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.”

Jesus said these things, and lifting up
his eyes to heaven, he said, “Father, the time has come.
Glorify your Son, that your Son may also glorify you; even as you
gave him authority over all flesh, he will give eternal life to all
whom you have given him. This is eternal life, that they should know
you, the only true God, and him whom you sent, Jesus Christ. I
glorified you on the earth. I have accomplished the work which you
have given me to do. Now, Father, glorify me with your own self with
the glory which I had with you before the world existed. I revealed
your name to the people whom you have given me out of the world. They
were yours, and you have given them to me. They have kept your word.
Now they have known that all things whatever you have given me are
from you, for the words which you have given me I have given to them,
and they received them, and knew for sure that I came from you, and
they have believed that you sent me. I pray for them. I don’t
pray for the world, but for those whom you have given me, for they
are yours. All things that are mine are yours, and yours are mine,
and I am glorified in them. I am no more in the world, but these are
in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them through
your name which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we
are. While I was with them in the world, I kept them in your name.
Those whom you have given me I have kept. None of them is lost,
except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.
But now I come to you, and I say these things in the world, that they
may have my joy made full in themselves. I have given them your word.
The world hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am
not of the world. I pray not that you would take them from the world,
but that you would keep them from the evil one. They are not of the
world even as I am not of the world. Sanctify them in your truth.
Your word is truth. As you sent me into the world, even so I have
sent them into the world. For their sakes I sanctify myself, that
they themselves also may be sanctified in truth. Not for these only
do I pray, but for those also who believe in me through their word,
that they may all be one; even as you, Father, are in me, and I in
you, that they also may be one in us; that the world may believe that
you sent me. The glory which you have given me, I have given to them;
that they may be one, even as we are one; I in them, and you in me,
that they may be perfected into one; that the world may know that you
sent me, and loved them, even as you loved me. Father, I desire that
they also whom you have given me be with me where I am, that they may
see my glory, which you have given me, for you loved me before the
foundation of the world. Righteous Father, the world hasn’t
known you, but I knew you; and these knew that you sent me. I made
known to them your name, and will make it known; that the love with
which you loved me may be in them, and I in them.”

When Jesus had spoken these words, he
went out with his disciples over the brook Kidron, where there was a
garden, into which he and his disciples entered. Now Judas, who
betrayed him, also knew the place, for Jesus often met there with his
disciples. Judas then, having taken a detachment of soldiers and
officers from the chief priests and the Pharisees, came there with
lanterns, torches, and weapons. Jesus therefore, knowing all the
things that were happening to him, went out, and said to them, “Who
are you looking for?”

They answered him, “Jesus of
Nazareth.”

Jesus said to them, “I am he.”

Judas also, who betrayed him, was
standing with them. When therefore he said to them, “I am he,”
they went backward, and fell to the ground.

Again therefore he asked them, “Who
are you looking for?”

They said, “Jesus of Nazareth.”

Jesus answered, “I told you that
I am he. If therefore you seek me, let these go their way,”
that the word might be fulfilled which he spoke, “Of those whom
you have given me, I have lost none.”

Simon Peter therefore, having a sword,
drew it, and struck the high priest’s servant, and cut off his
right ear. The servant’s name was Malchus. Jesus therefore said
to Peter, “Put the sword into its sheath. The cup which the
Father has given me, shall I not surely drink it?”

So the detachment, the commanding
officer, and the officers of the Jews, seized Jesus and bound him,
and led him to Annas first, for he was father-in-law to Caiaphas, who
was high priest that year. Now it was Caiaphas who advised the Jews
that it was expedient that one man should perish for the people.
Simon Peter followed Jesus, as did another disciple. Now that
disciple was known to the high priest, and entered in with Jesus into
the court of the high priest; but Peter was standing at the door
outside. So the other disciple, who was known to the high priest,
went out and spoke to her who kept the door, and brought in Peter.
Then the maid who kept the door said to Peter, “Are you also
one of this man’s disciples?”

He said, “I am not.”

Now the servants and the officers were
standing there, having made a fire of coals, for it was cold. They
were warming themselves. Peter was with them, standing and warming
himself. The high priest therefore asked Jesus about his disciples,
and about his teaching. Jesus answered him, “I spoke openly to
the world. I always taught in synagogues, and in the temple, where
the Jews always meet. I said nothing in secret. Why do you ask me?
Ask those who have heard me what I said to them. Behold, these know
the things which I said.”

When he had said this, one of the
officers standing by slapped Jesus with his hand, saying, “Do
you answer the high priest like that?”

Jesus answered him, “If I have
spoken evil, testify of the evil; but if well, why do you beat me?”

Annas sent him bound to Caiaphas, the
high priest. Now Simon Peter was standing and warming himself. They
said therefore to him, “You aren’t also one of his
disciples, are you?”

He denied it, and said, “I am
not.”

One of the servants of the high priest,
being a relative of him whose ear Peter had cut off, said, “Didn’t
I see you in the garden with him?”

Peter therefore denied it again, and
immediately the rooster crowed.

They led Jesus therefore from Caiaphas
into the Praetorium. It was early, and they themselves didn’t
enter into the Praetorium, that they might not be defiled, but might
eat the Passover. Pilate therefore went out to them, and said, “What
accusation do you bring against this man?”

They answered him, “If this man
weren’t an evildoer, we wouldn’t have delivered him up to
you.”

Pilate therefore said to them, “Take
him yourselves, and judge him according to your law.”

Therefore the Jews said to him, “It
is not lawful for us to put anyone to death,” that the word of
Jesus might be fulfilled, which he spoke, signifying by what kind of
death he should die.

Pilate therefore entered again into the
Praetorium, called Jesus, and said to him, “Are you the King of
the Jews?”

Jesus answered him, “Do you say
this by yourself, or did others tell you about me?”

Pilate answered, “I’m not a
Jew, am I? Your own nation and the chief priests delivered you to me.
What have you done?”

Jesus answered, “My Kingdom is
not of this world. If my Kingdom were of this world, then my servants
would fight, that I wouldn’t be delivered to the Jews. But now
my Kingdom is not from here.”

Pilate therefore said to him, “Are
you a king then?”

Jesus answered, “You say that I
am a king. For this reason I have been born, and for this reason I
have come into the world, that I should testify to the truth.
Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice.”

Pilate said to him, “What is
truth?”

When he had said this, he went out
again to the Jews, and said to them, “I find no basis for a
charge against him. But you have a custom, that I should release
someone to you at the Passover. Therefore do you want me to release
to you the King of the Jews?”

Then they all shouted again, saying,
“Not this man, but Barabbas!” Now Barabbas was a robber.

So Pilate then took Jesus, and flogged
him. The soldiers twisted thorns into a crown, and put it on his
head, and dressed him in a purple garment. They kept saying, “Hail,
King of the Jews!” and they kept slapping him.

Then Pilate went out again, and said to
them, “Behold, I bring him out to you, that you may know that I
find no basis for a charge against him.”

Jesus therefore came out, wearing the
crown of thorns and the purple garment. Pilate said to them, “Behold,
the man!”

When therefore the chief priests and
the officers saw him, they shouted, saying, “Crucify! Crucify!”

Pilate said to them, “Take him
yourselves, and crucify him, for I find no basis for a charge against
him.”

The Jews answered him, “We have a
law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son
of God.”

When therefore Pilate heard this
saying, he was more afraid. He entered into the Praetorium again, and
said to Jesus, “Where are you from?” But Jesus gave him
no answer. Pilate therefore said to him, “Aren’t you
speaking to me? Don’t you know that I have power to release
you, and have power to crucify you?”

Jesus answered, “You would have
no power at all against me, unless it were given to you from above.
Therefore he who delivered me to you has greater sin.”

At this, Pilate was seeking to release
him, but the Jews cried out, saying, “If you release this man,
you aren’t Caesar’s friend! Everyone who makes himself a
king speaks against Caesar!”

When Pilate therefore heard these
words, he brought Jesus out, and sat down on the judgment seat at a
place called “The Pavement”, but in Hebrew, “Gabbatha.”
Now it was the Preparation Day of the Passover, at about the sixth
hour. He said to the Jews, “Behold, your King!”

They cried out, “Away with him!
Away with him! Crucify him!”

Pilate said to them, “Shall I
crucify your King?”

The chief priests answered, “We
have no king but Caesar!”

So then he delivered him to them to be
crucified. So they took Jesus and led him away. He went out, bearing
his cross, to the place called “The Place of a Skull”,
which is called in Hebrew, “Golgotha”, where they
crucified him, and with him two others, on either side one, and Jesus
in the middle. Pilate wrote a title also, and put it on the cross.
There was written, “JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS.”
Therefore many of the Jews read this title, for the place where Jesus
was crucified was near the city; and it was written in Hebrew, in
Latin, and in Greek. The chief priests of the Jews therefore said to
Pilate, “Don’t write, ‘The King of the Jews,’
but, ‘he said, I am King of the Jews.’”

Pilate answered, “What I have
written, I have written.”

Then the soldiers, when they had
crucified Jesus, took his garments and made four parts, to every
soldier a part; and also the coat. Now the coat was without seam,
woven from the top throughout. Then they said to one another, “Let’s
not tear it, but cast lots for it to decide whose it will be,”
that the Scripture might be fulfilled, which says,

“They parted my garments among
them.

For my cloak they cast lots.”

Therefore the soldiers did these
things. But there were standing by the cross of Jesus his mother, and
his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary
Magdalene. Therefore when Jesus saw his mother, and the disciple whom
he loved standing there, he said to his mother, “Woman, behold
your son!” Then he said to the disciple, “Behold, your
mother!” From that hour, the disciple took her to his own home.

After this, Jesus, seeing that all
things were now finished, that the Scripture might be fulfilled,
said, “I am thirsty.” Now a vessel full of vinegar was
set there; so they put a sponge full of the vinegar on hyssop, and
held it at his mouth. When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar,
he said, “It is finished.” He bowed his head, and gave up
his spirit.

Therefore the Jews, because it was the
Preparation Day, so that the bodies wouldn’t remain on the
cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a special one), asked of
Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken
away. Therefore the soldiers came, and broke the legs of the first,
and of the other who was crucified with him; but when they came to
Jesus, and saw that he was already dead, they didn’t break his
legs. However one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and
immediately blood and water came out. He who has seen has testified,
and his testimony is true. He knows that he tells the truth, that you
may believe. For these things happened, that the Scripture might be
fulfilled, “A bone of him will not be broken.” Again
another Scripture says, “They will look on him whom they
pierced.”

After these things, Joseph of
Arimathaea, being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the
Jews, asked of Pilate that he might take away Jesus’ body.
Pilate gave him permission. He came therefore and took away his body.
Nicodemus, who at first came to Jesus by night, also came bringing a
mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred Roman pounds. So they
took Jesus’ body, and bound it in linen cloths with the spices,
as the custom of the Jews is to bury. Now in the place where he was
crucified there was a garden. In the garden was a new tomb in which
no man had ever yet been laid. Then because of the Jews’
Preparation Day (for the tomb was near at hand) they laid Jesus
there.

Now on the first day of the week, Mary
Magdalene went early, while it was still dark, to the tomb, and saw
the stone taken away from the tomb. Therefore she ran and came to
Simon Peter, and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and said to
them, “They have taken away the Lord out of the tomb, and we
don’t know where they have laid him!”

Therefore Peter and the other disciple
went out, and they went toward the tomb. They both ran together. The
other disciple outran Peter, and came to the tomb first. Stooping and
looking in, he saw the linen cloths lying, yet he didn’t enter
in. Then Simon Peter came, following him, and entered into the tomb.
He saw the linen cloths lying, and the cloth that had been on his
head, not lying with the linen cloths, but rolled up in a place by
itself. So then the other disciple who came first to the tomb also
entered in, and he saw and believed. For as yet they didn’t
know the Scripture, that he must rise from the dead. So the disciples
went away again to their own homes.

But Mary was standing outside at the
tomb weeping. So, as she wept, she stooped and looked into the tomb,
and she saw two angels in white sitting, one at the head, and one at
the feet, where the body of Jesus had lain. They told her, “Woman,
why are you weeping?”

She said to them, “Because they
have taken away my Lord, and I don’t know where they have laid
him.” When she had said this, she turned around and saw Jesus
standing, and didn’t know that it was Jesus.

Jesus said to her, “Woman, why
are you weeping? Who are you looking for?”

She, supposing him to be the gardener,
said to him, “Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where
you have laid him, and I will take him away.”

Jesus said to her, “Mary.”

She turned and said to him, “Rabboni!”
which is to say, “Teacher!”

Jesus said to her, “Don’t
hold me, for I haven’t yet ascended to my Father; but go to my
brothers, and tell them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your
Father, to my God and your God.’”

Mary Magdalene came and told the
disciples that she had seen the Lord, and that he had said these
things to her. When therefore it was evening, on that day, the first
day of the week, and when the doors were locked where the disciples
were assembled, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the
middle, and said to them, “Peace be to you.”

When he had said this, he showed them
his hands and his side. The disciples therefore were glad when they
saw the Lord. Jesus therefore said to them again, “Peace be to
you. As the Father has sent me, even so I send you.” When he
had said this, he breathed on them, and said to them, “Receive
the Holy Spirit! If you forgive anyone’s sins, they have been
forgiven them. If you retain anyone’s sins, they have been
retained.”

But Thomas, one of the twelve, called
Didymus, wasn’t with them when Jesus came. The other disciples
therefore said to him, “We have seen the Lord!”

But he said to them, “Unless I
see in his hands the print of the nails, and put my hand into his
side, I will not believe.”

After eight days again his disciples
were inside, and Thomas was with them. Jesus came, the doors being
locked, and stood in the middle, and said, “Peace be to you.”
Then he said to Thomas, “Reach here your finger, and see my
hands. Reach here your hand, and put it into my side. Don’t be
unbelieving, but believing.”

Thomas answered him, “My Lord and
my God!”

Jesus said to him, “Because you
have seen me, you have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen,
and have believed.”

Therefore Jesus did many other signs in
the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book;
but these are written, that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ,
the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in his name.

After these things, Jesus revealed
himself again to the disciples at the sea of Tiberias. He revealed
himself this way. Simon Peter, Thomas called Didymus, Nathanael of
Cana in Galilee, and the sons of Zebedee, and two others of his
disciples were together. Simon Peter said to them, “I’m
going fishing.”

They told him, “We are also
coming with you.” They immediately went out, and entered into
the boat. That night, they caught nothing. But when day had already
come, Jesus stood on the beach, yet the disciples didn’t know
that it was Jesus. Jesus therefore said to them, “Children,
have you anything to eat?”

They answered him, “No.”

He said to them, “Cast the net on
the right side of the boat, and you will find some.”

They cast it therefore, and now they
weren’t able to draw it in for the multitude of fish. That
disciple therefore whom Jesus loved said to Peter, “It’s
the Lord!”

So when Simon Peter heard that it was
the Lord, he wrapped his coat around him (for he was naked), and
threw himself into the sea. But the other disciples came in the
little boat (for they were not far from the land, but about two
hundred cubits away), dragging the net full of fish. So when they got
out on the land, they saw a fire of coals there, and fish laid on it,
and bread. Jesus said to them, “Bring some of the fish which
you have just caught.”

Simon Peter went up, and drew the net
to land, full of great fish, one hundred fifty-three; and even though
there were so many, the net wasn’t torn.

Jesus said to them, “Come and eat
breakfast.”

None of the disciples dared inquire of
him, “Who are you?” knowing that it was the Lord.

Then Jesus came and took the bread,
gave it to them, and the fish likewise. This is now the third time
that Jesus was revealed to his disciples, after he had risen from the
dead. So when they had eaten their breakfast, Jesus said to Simon
Peter, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you love me more than these?”

He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you
know that I have affection for you.”

He said to him, “Feed my lambs.”
He said to him again a second time, “Simon, son of Jonah, do
you love me?”

He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you
know that I have affection for you.”

He said to him, “Tend my sheep.”
He said to him the third time, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you
have affection for me?”

Peter was grieved because he asked him
the third time, “Do you have affection for me?” He said
to him, “Lord, you know everything. You know that I have
affection for you.”

Jesus said to him, “Feed my
sheep. Most certainly I tell you, when you were young, you dressed
yourself, and walked where you wanted to. But when you are old, you
will stretch out your hands, and another will dress you, and carry
you where you don’t want to go.”

Now he said this, signifying by what
kind of death he would glorify God. When he had said this, he said to
him, “Follow me.”

Then Peter, turning around, saw a
disciple following. This was the disciple whom Jesus loved, the one
who had also leaned on Jesus’ breast at the supper and asked,
“Lord, who is going to betray You?” Peter seeing him,
said to Jesus, “Lord, what about this man?”

Jesus said to him, “If I desire
that he stay until I come, what is that to you? You follow me.”
This saying therefore went out among the brothers, that this disciple
wouldn’t die. Yet Jesus didn’t say to him that he
wouldn’t die, but, “If I desire that he stay until I
come, what is that to you?” This is the disciple who testifies
about these things, and wrote these things. We know that his witness
is true. There are also many other things which Jesus did, which if
they would all be written, I suppose that even the world itself
wouldn’t have room for the books that would be written.